different between abolisher vs abolish

English

Etymology

From abolish +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?l.??.?/, /??b?l.??.?/

Noun

abolisher (plural abolishers)

1. Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes. [From the 16^th century.]
   • 1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16,^[1]

     […] I am not come to bee an abolisher of the lawe.

   • 1725, Henry Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares: or, The Antiquities of the Common People, Newcastle: for the author, Preface, p. x,^[2]

     I would not be thought a Reviver of old Rites and Ceremonies to the Burdening of the People, nor an Abolisher of innocent Customs, which are their Pleasures and Recreations […]

   • 1968, Kingsley Amis, “After Goliath” in A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, pp. 7-8,^[3]

     Alastors, Austenites, A-test

     Abolishers—even the straightest

     Of issues looks pretty oblique

     When a movement turns into a clique,

Translations

English

Etymology

From late Middle English abolisshen, from Middle French abolir, aboliss- (extended stem), from Latin abol?re (“to retard, check the growth of, (and by extension) destroy, abolish”), inchoative abol?scere (“to wither, vanish, (Classical) cease”), probably from ab (“from, away from”) + *ol?re (“to increase, grow”) which is found only in compound.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?-b?l'?sh IPA^(key): /??b?l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?l.??/, /??b?l.??/

Verb

abolish (third-person singular simple present abolishes, present participle abolishing, simple past and past participle abolished or (obsolete) abolisht)

1. To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice): abrogate, annul, cancel, dissolve, nullify, repeal, revoke

Antonyms

• (to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice): establish, found

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